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Acts 8:14, Now When the Apostles Which Were at the People a Grace Notes course The Acts of the Apostles Chapters 8 to 14 Compiled by Warren Doud Grace Notes Web Site: http://www.gracenotes.info E-mail: [email protected] ACTS - compiled by Warren Doud Chapters 8 to 14 Contents ACTS 8 ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 ACTS 9 ......................................................................................................................................................... 23 ACTS 10 ....................................................................................................................................................... 42 ACTS 11 ....................................................................................................................................................... 56 ACTS 12 ....................................................................................................................................................... 75 ACTS 13 ....................................................................................................................................................... 86 ACTS 14 ..................................................................................................................................................... 116 The first clause should be the concluding verse The Acts course is published in four parts, with of chapter 7. The Vulgate (Latin) version, and seven chapters in each part. The files are titled: several other versions, have it that way. ACTS_chap1-7, ACTS_chap8-14, ACTS_chap15- Chapter 8 begins with the account of the great 21, and ACTS_chap22-28. persecution. Consenting ACTS 8 συνευδοκων – “to be willing: to approve with glad consent; with pleasure” Paul had great zeal ACTS 8 TOPICAL STUDIES for the death of Stephen and for the persecution that was brought against the Christians in the ACTS 1 TOPICAL STUDIES time that followed. Paul was confident that he There are topical studies in categorical served God by putting Christians to death, doctrine, history, biography, geography, and putting them in prison, and otherwise word studies accompanying each chapter of harassing them. Paul is not merely standing by Acts. They should be studied along with the here, he is enthusiastically and actively helping verse by verse commentary. with the murder of Stephen. To read these files, view or download them death from the Grace Notes Topics Library: anairesei – “murder; death”, literally, “to take https://www.gracenotes.online/topics/ up and carry away.” A very interesting use of Chastisement this idiom for death, especially as Stephen had Demons seen into heaven just before his death, and was Gospel now being taken immediately into the presence Grace of the Father. Happiness Happiness great persecution Holy Spirit diovgmo~ mega~ Holy Spirit, Indwelling It was against the church in Jerusalem, which is Mental Attitude no sooner planted than it is persecuted. Christ Negative Volition often taught that tribulation and persecution Persecution in the Early Church would arise because of the Word. And the Lord Philip had particularly foretold that Jerusalem would Preaching soon be made dangerous for his followers, for Repentance that city had been famous for killing the Samaria prophets and stoning those that were sent to it, Samaritan Woman Matthew 23:37. Sin Unto Death In this persecution many were put to death, for Suffering Paul states that at this time he “persecuted this Suffering way [Christianity] unto the death,” (Acts 21:4): Acts 8:1, And Saul was consenting unto his and that when they were put to death he gave death. And at that time there was a great his voice against them (Acts 26:10).” 1 persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad According to some accounts, though they throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, cannot be depended on, two thousand persons except the apostles. 1 Henry, Matthew, Commentary on the Whole Bible ACTS 4 suffered at this time: and if this was the case, it From the Talmud, “they did not bury one that would certainly qualify as a great persecution. was stoned in the sepulchers of his fathers, but scattered abroad there were two burying places appointed by the sanhedrim, one for those that are stoned and 3rd person plural, aorist passive indicative of burnt, and another for those that are slain with “to scatter; to disperse” The passive diaspeivro the sword and strangled.” voice indicates that the people did not scatter themselves, but that they were scattered by According to the Tract Sanhedrin, Folio 45 and other people, namely, by those who were 46, the stone wherewith any one was stoned, persecuting them. the post on which he was hanged, the sword by which he was beheaded, and the cord by which Those who were scattered were the preachers he was strangled, were buried in the same place of the word; this does not speak of all believers with the bodies of the executed persons. As being scattered at this time. “Not all the these persons died under the curse of the law, members of the church [were scattered], nor the instruments by which they were put to perhaps any of the private ones; for we death were considered as unclean and afterwards read of devout men that carried accursed, and therefore buried with their Stephen to his grave; and of the church being bodies. made havoc of by Saul; and of men and women being haled out of their houses, and committed So the men who buried Stephen were quite to prison by him; but all the preachers of the courageous and resolute, who would not allow word [were scattered], except the apostles; for Stephen to be buried in a common place like a they that were scattered went about preaching criminal. the word, (Acts 8:4, 11:19) Among these were carried (to his burial) Philip, who went to Samaria; Ananias, who was sugkomivzo “to collect; to bring together.” In at Damascus; and others that went as far as the King James version, the words “to his Phenice, Cyprus, and Antioch. 2 burial” are italicized, indicating that the except the apostles. translators added these words to make the meaning clear. There are many instances of this The apostles continued in Jerusalem, to found word in the Papyri. and organize the infant Church. This is an indication of their great courage in the face of From Catalog of the Greek Papyri in the John threats of imprisonment and death, a courage Rylands Library, Manchester, UK: which they showed all the rest of their lives. sunkomisavmenos ta pleista meri tei~ Acts 8:2, And devout men carried Stephen to his ekbavseo~ ton edafon. “having gathered the burial, and made great lamentation over him. greater part of the produce of the fields”. 3 The men who buried Stephen were members of Souter, in Pocket Lexicon to the Greek New the Christian community. They prepared Testament, Oxford Press, suggests that in Acts Stephen’s body for burial and took it to a place 8:2 the verb may not mean “to take up” or of burial, in contradiction of established “carry,” but “get back,” or “recover”, so that the Sanhedrin policy. men who cared for Stephen’s body had to Below are some comments from the Talmud recover it from the killing ground where he lay. 4 about the handling of the bodies of condemned people (although keep in mind that Stephen was not legally condemned; he was murdered by a furious mob.) 3 Moulton, James Hope and Milligan, George, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament 2 Gill, John, Exposition of the Old and New Testaments. 4 Moulton and Milligan ACTS 5 The meaning “to get back” is also seen in 40’s, and the wholesale arrest and execution of another source from the first century AD: dissidents in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. monon diagravfo ta deimovsia meidevn haling men and women sunkomizomevno~, “only I continue paying The word “haling,” is very weak, in that it does the public taxes without getting back anything not bring into English the violent capture of in return.” 5 (Sounds very modern for being people that is indicated by the Greek. One 2000 years ago! wd) “hails” a taxi, or a friend at a distance. lamentation But the verb suvro signifies dragging men and women before magistrates, or dragging them to kopeto~ , literally, “breast beating”, thus an justice, treating them in a violent manner. idiom for grievous mourning. Used quite often in the Septuagint: Gen. 50:10; Esther 4:3; cf. John 21:8, “Ane the other disciples came in a Psalm 30:11; Amos 5:16,17. little boat (for they were not far from land, but as it were 200 cubits), dragging (suvro) the net Acts 8:3, As for Saul, he made havoc of the with fish.” church, entering into every house, and haling men and women, committed them to prison. cf. Rev. 12:3,4, “…and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and Saul made havoc of the church seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew “Havoc” is from lumaino “to outrage; (suvro) the third part of the stars of heaven and dishonor; devastate; ravage.” The word is used did cast them to the earth…” of ferocious animals, such as bears or wolves, Saul, and other religious Jews, invaded who track down and kill their prey. This shows Christian’s homes at any time of the day or with what diligent and persevering hatred Saul night and violently abducted men and women pursued the innocent Christians. and took them off to prison to be tortured and From the time of Aeschylus. in the sense “to murdered. treat disgracefully,” then more generally “to do committed them = paradivdomi – “to hand an injury,” “to hurt,” “to imperil” (e.g., the health over; to give over” of the body, the constitution of the state), “to destroy” (physically or morally), “to devastate” prison = fulakei. This is widely used in Greek (places in war), “to treat infamously,” “to for “guard” injure”. “The Romans alone had the power of life and In the Septuagint λυμαίνομαι (cf. Dan. 6:23; 2 death, the Sanhedrin, by whom Saul was Chr. 16:10; Isa. 65:25). The meaning is “to employed (Acts 26:10; Gal. 1:13) could do no destroy”, (Prov. 25:26), “to corrupt” or “to more than arrest and imprison, in order to disfigure” “to shame” ( Ezra. 16:25), “to inflict any punishment short of death.
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